Missing the track motion button in Vegas Pro? By default, only the Mute and Solo buttons are enabled for each track. Here’s how to restore the visible button set on the track headers.

Step 1

Click the hamburger icon to the left of the track header area and click, “Edit Visible Button Set…“⠀

Step 2

Select the buttons you want to appear in all video track headers. I chose “Show All“. Press OK.

Step 3

Repeat the same process for Audio Tracks. Select the buttons you want to appear in all audio track headers. I chose “Show All“. Press OK.

That’s all there is to it! The visible buttons have been restored as they appeared in previous version of VEGAS Pro. Of course, you could just stick to navigating the hamburger menu for these buttons but I find it easier just pressing a button that’s already there.

Restore Vegas Pro 14 Window Layout

If you’re really missing the old layout, specifically from VEGAS Pro 14, you can change the window layout to “Vegas 14 Default” by navigating to View > Window Layouts > Vegas 14 Default or press the shortcut key Alt+D, V . This will also restore the Visible Button Set on Track Headers.

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In this video, I’ll demonstrate how you can make portrait or standard video (most commonly taken from cell phones), look more appealing in Sony Vegas. You will notice this effect commonly used in news and daytime talk shows. Not only will it work for cell phone video but it can also be used for any standard video that you need to incorporate into your widescreen project. Get rid of those big anaconda side bars!

As an alternative, you could also crop the video. But, it may not always be ideal. Especially, if the video is so small like the video clip used in this tutorial.

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In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to disable the Smart Resample feature in Sony Vegas to prevent ghosting.

Have you ever noticed after you import certain clips in your timeline, there’s a ghosting effect much like the image above? This happens when you import footage into your timeline that has a different frame rate than the project. The “Smart Resample” feature of Sony Vegas, creates a crossfade effect between the original frames to match the source frames.

In this case, the project was set at 59.940 FPS (Frames Per Second) while this particular video clip had a slightly different fps of 59.949 fps. So, Sony Vegas automatically adjusted the clip with “Smart Resampling” to try and match the framerate of the project. As it may be useful in certain circumstances, you’ll usually get a much sharper look when turning it off.

‘Smart Resample‘ is always on by default and there’s currently no way to change that. Though, it only applies itself when the event’s frame rate does not match the source frames. Useful if you experience any interlacing problems or any other jittery output problems.

To turn off Smart Resampling, select all the clips you want to disable it from. Right-Click the first clip and then go to Switches > Disable Resample. This will apply that option to all of your selected clips.

If you would like a quicker way to disable Smart Resample for all clips, check out this script: http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/959394 You’ll be able to disable it for your entire project with a click of a button. Though, I found it to be just as fast doing it manually.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!

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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to simply split two videos side by side in Sony Vegas. We’ll use the Event Pan/Crop tool to create a one-time preset which can be used for all videos. Works for 1080p and 720p video sizes + more.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!

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In this tutorial, we will be taking a look at how you can animate things with the use of gradient wipes in Sony Vegas Pro 12. This can be used for animating lines, writing text, etc. without the need to keyframe anything at all. This does require a photo editor, which for this I used Photoshop.

Image from Shutterstock.com

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Method 1:

Double-click the gap and press Delete then Ctrl + Shift + F to delete the gap and auto ripple the clips back in place.

Method 2:

With Auto Ripple turned on. Double-click the gaps and press Delete to get rid of them and auto ripple the clips back in place.

Method 3:

Use the following script to automate the process for multiple gaps. Keep in mind, scripts only work in Pro versions of Sony Vegas.

Script:

Download Script Here   … or

Copy and Paste the following code in Notepad and Save-As – preferredname.js

Remember to put “.js” at the end of the file name in order to initiate the jscript file.

/** 
* Program: 
* Description: This script will Delete Empty Space Between Events In Selected Tracks
* Author: Philip
* 
* Date: August 31, 2003 
**/ 

import Sony.Vegas; 
import System.Windows.Forms;
import Microsoft.Win32;

//time intervals for split events.

try
{

// step through all selected video events:
var FirstTrack : Track = Vegas.Project.Tracks.Item(0);

// step through all selected video events:
for (var track in Vegas.Project.Tracks) {
if( !track.Selected) continue;
var tracktime = new Timecode(0);
for (var evnt in track.Events) {
evnt.AdjustStartLength(tracktime,evnt.Length,true);
tracktime = tracktime + evnt.Length;
}
}
}

catch (errorMsg)
{
MessageBox.Show(errorMsg, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
}

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Did you happen to capture all those fireworks this past Fourth of July? With the recent celebration of Independence Day here in America, we had a great chance to once again capture all those stunning fireworks in the sky. Unfortunately for me, as much as I wished to had captured them, I was the one lighting them! I definitely wish I had the chance to shoot them as they were pretty neat this year. I also would of had a great collection of firework footage to use in my projects all year round.

If you happened to capture the fireworks, here’s one way you could utilize them in any type of celebration video.

Assuming they were shot in the sky and the background’s entirely black, you’ll be able to make the black disappear leaving only the fireworks in a video. With that, you can overlay the clips on top of any birthday clip, wedding clip or to spruce up any type of celebration video.

Here’s how to do this in Sony Vegas Pro 12. Keep in mind that this technique will work in just about any video editor out there as long as you have control of the clips Blend(Compositing) Mode.

Source Firework Footage: http://j.mp/15uiVUt (newdepthmedia)

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We’ve all seen it at least once. You watch a music video and one of the effects you see is a strobe like frame by frame flash that goes to the beat. As requested, we’ll be taking a look at how to do just that in Vegas Pro 12. We’ll be using general features not bound to just Vegas Pro so feel free to apply these techniques to your favorite editing platform.

Inspiration

Eminem – No Love ft. Lil Wayne @ 1:25 http://j.mp/11lVScL

Harlem Shake Times Square NYC feat. NYPD @ 0:20 http://j.mp/11lVZ8f

If you used this effect in any of your videos, share them in the comments below or on our Facebook page!

Resources:
Royalty Free Music by http://audiomicro.com/royalty-free-music
Flickr Car Image by Axion23
Optical Flares: RodyPolis (http://j.mp/LXkT60)

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Overview

Download Project File .Zip 31.9 MB

Sources

Texture: http://www.tofurious.com/post-production/grunge-textures/

Flare Overlay: http://www.cutestockfootage.com/

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